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LOOKS UKE INDIANS AND CARDS II IN ‘WORLD SERIES OF CLEVELAND’SI1 SANDLOT BASEBALL WEARS MAJOR LEAGUE PANTS IN SUBURBAN UNIVERSITY 1 s HEIGHTS; STARS APLENTY►By DOUGLAS DIES. AP Feature Service Wriier• CLEVELAND. Sept. 5.—Sand- \ on Wednesdays and Sundays. ; lot baseball wears major league j the lads get expert coaching pants in suburban University I from paid-and-uniformed um-Heights, home of the Junior ipires Tony Pianoski and Hal Le-American and National Baseball f bovitz. After an inning in which Leagues, Inc. jsome player makes a mistake— yOn two regulation diamonds, lt;like forgetting to swing at a ball u 170 boys between the ages of 10 whpn a tean\mate tries a elean w and 14 wear uniforms copiedsteal of home—the umpire asks j P'from nine major league teams, ... i dlt;and play a brand of baseball far the error-makor what he shouldbeyond your expectations. i have done. The youngster usually RA batter hitting .714 on a team knows his fault. wwhich has seven .400 hitters, an Star of the National League is e,ambidextrous pitcher who bats i Mario Termi, an orphan recently (] .600 and plays shortstop on off adopted by a local family. Mario days, and several sons of former; was given a try-out like all other 'sc professional players are some of applicants by playing a full»w the features of the league. game. 1 slt;It all began three years ago He began by pitching right- n when Albert J. Morhard. then handed and fanning the first a 9. could talk about nothing but three batters. In the second in- ni baseball. He organized a team, ‘ning he struck out three more— d(made everyone practice, got op- but this time with his left t-ponents. and spent his winters fliger. During the third frame)scheming for summer. Mario sparked the rookies with J ■Today hit widowed mother, the finest catching tho old lcag- RMrs. Josephine Morhard, is . uers ever saw.godmother and Commiseioner t Now Mario is the League’sLandis of the two leagues leading shortstop, hitting a mere which she recently incorpo- ' .600 for the Cardinals.siiYrated, and rules with a velvet- “I hate to do it”, Mrs. Morhard covered hand of steel.msays, “because the boys get at- jj $14 tached to their uniforms, but I'm t}Each bov buys his own uniform for the wholesale price going to have to shake up that of $6.70. Mrs. Morhard raises op- Cardinal team. They're winning erating funds by having each too many games. But I can’t very ^ player sell two $1 booster tickets., well shift Mario. He is the Car-» ir and by staging a benefit barbe-Idinals'. cue at the end of each season.niYoung Morhard’s first team rwas the “Little Indians'* in trib- CDADTC f *1 PMHAR V ute to the Cleveland American UlUIlIlJ V/HLLlll/illi i.Leaguers. This year the Indians ' pand Washington are tied at the j “““ilitop of the five-team American BASEBALLLeague. Chciago is third, and ANew York and St. Louis share lt;Ma’or Lea9u”’ c(the cellar. TODAY 1 n,The National League, formed American irthis year with four teams, is j Cieve|and at Detroit.topped by the undefeated St.; gt Loujs at chicago, nif,hl hl Louis Cardinals. Brooklyn is inlgamc |pJsecond place, followed by the only games scheduled. IIPirates and Cincinnati. NationalWayne Wiggins of Chicago Cincinnali at PiUsburgh. two leads the American Leaguestick-swingers with a 714 bat- g*ph“‘adelphia at Boston. 21ting average. Six of his team- 0n]y games scht.dult,d. t,mates are slugging above the .400 _ hchisox SOFTBALL ,«a pitcher’s nightmare. :(But Richard Kusa. 12. star (Bayview Park. 8:00 p. m.)Indian right-hander, found them TONIGHTeasy meat recently. He fanned First Game_Navy vs. Nav. 'pa17, walked none, to win a seven- gtfl ' cj inning contest 4 to 2 S Game_Thurston Build- II. Johnny Peckmpaugh. 10-year- PeDD,.r- • Plumbersold son of Roger Peckinpaugh ets vs' ^ippir Plumpers.r*j (manager of the major league sClevelanders), plays right field —vrcvctuiiuuta/, J J __ _ - -p.. -a, for Morhard’s Indians. Young TodaV S BlVthCiayS o Peck is no star, but very willing.PThen there's Raymond Lind-)1 quiit, 11. beautiful fielding j George E. Sokolsky of New j m as 1 m % a a n r* 1 a nf a a ♦ %% 1 ra nl a a mYankee shortstop who is a son of William Lindquist, a formerpitcher in the St. Louis Car-York. journalist, author, lecturer, bom in Utica, N. Y., 48 yearsago.oL dinal farm system. Little Lin-UlllOi tot 114 ijsiviiii ••••• |dy is A-l pitching materiaL j Darryl F. Zanuck of Holly-too. but his Dad will not per- wood, famed movie producer, £ j mit him to pitch more than (born in Wahoo, Nebr., 39 yearsitionce every two weeks. I ago.In their twice weekly games1jtlDr. Ila D. Weeks, president of the University of South Dakota.AOTAXiniMPO born in Scolia- Nebr.. 40 years
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Key West Citizen
Key West, Florida, US
Fri, Sep 05, 1941
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